viii, 208 pages ; 23 cm

In the wake of globalization, the humanities and social sciences have explored the existence and possibilities of human community on a global scale. But these investigations have been developed within separate academic disciplines, with little exchange of ideas across disciplinary boundaries. Global Community? Transnational and Transdisciplinary Exchanges draws together a variety of perspectives to offer an interdisciplinary, and critical, examination of global community past and present. This volume opens with a contribution by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the world's most renowned scholars in the humanities, and then follows up with original contributions by established and promising young researchers from across the humanities and social sciences. The chapters provide conceptual, normative, and empirical investigations of global community, examining it through the lenses of postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, world literature, transnational networks, and global ethics. Global Community? contributes to a renewed debate about the past, present, and future of global community, allowing for a broader and deeper understanding of these timely phenomena across disciplinary boundaries

Includes bibliographical references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index

Preface -- Introduction : transnational and transdisciplinary exchanges / Henrik Enroth and Douglas Brommesson -- Global? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- Narratives of global political space : globalization theory or historical sociology and civilizational analysis / Martin Hall -- Medieval world society meets R2P : moral and legal personality in Thomas Aquinas / Douglas Brommesson -- Global community as a response to the cosmopolitan solidarity problem / Luke Ulaş -- Creating a collaborative community : problems and possibilities of collaborative autobiographical writing in Jonathan Morgan's Finding Mr Madini / Jenny Siméus -- Community in fragments : reading relation in the fragments of Heraclitus / Carrie Giunta -- Virtual religious communities : old wine in new wineskins? / Jørgen Straarup -- The "spirit of internationalism" in the pre-war women's movement / Susan Hinely -- Community? / Henrik Enroth

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